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Ask HN: How many emails do you receive per day?

2 pointsby bradtxover 7 years ago
On average, how many emails (either directly, via CC, system alert, etc.) do you receive at work per day?

3 comments

cimmanomover 7 years ago
1-3 direct emails requiring reading comprehension and reply.<p>5 or so calendar invites.<p>200-500 automated updates from issue tracker, CI system, et al. Auto-filed and processed in batches when time avails. A few dozen will include comments, which can be treated as regular emails in that they require reading and typically response. The rest get skimmed over or need a click or two to move through workflow.<p>A dozen or so error report emails. Most reflecting iTunes API timeouts. Perhaps 1-3 genuine error cases.<p>2 dozen support requests from customers (BCC). Skimmed just to keep an eye out for recurring bugs and UX issues. Typically 1-2 of these per week have to be rescued from the spam filter.<p>1-2 dozen sample transactional emails from staging environment. Auto filed in case needed for future reference; otherwise ignored.<p>3-10 (depending on day of week) automated updates with metrics from SaaS vendors. Glanced at in passing during morning inbox clear-out.<p>3-5 marketing emails from own company. Auto-filed and ignored.<p>0-2 spams from recruiters (either side of the table). Typically skimmed and deleted.<p>4 daily newsletters my boss signed up for with the engineering team&#x27;s group distribution list even though they&#x27;re not relevant to anyone else and he won&#x27;t let us unsubscribe from them. (Desktop mail client has long since been trained to recognize these as spam.)<p>0 true spam messages except about once a year when someone comes up with a successful new attack against Google&#x27;s filters and it goes up to a half dozen per day (most recently in late January 2018) for a week or two and then drops straight back to zero.
DamonHDover 7 years ago
10,000 (mostly SPAM) delivery attempts per day, since I used to run an early UK ISP and was on the very first SPAMmer lists...<p>~100&#x2F;d make it to my mail client, of which most are SPAM still.<p>Maybe between 10 and 30 real emails per day, ie &#x27;ham&#x27;.<p>Rgds<p>Damon
FBISurveillanceover 7 years ago
~110